Phi. The Divine Proportion. The Fibonacci code. The Priory of Sion. Perhaps you’ve guessed what I have been glued into today. Yes, Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown has been stirring a hornet’s nest with his daring expose (though fictional) of that sacrosanct organization involved in a highly dangerous quest to attain power. Once again a depiction of the transgression that had cost an angel his place in Heaven: the desire for ultimate power and supremacy.

I’m a sucker for trivia and I have found the book highly entertaining and most intriguing.I even scrambled for a tape measure when Langdon was explaining about the Divine Proportion or Phi. He said that if you measure your height and divides it by the measurement of your belly button from your feet; you’ll get 1.618 which is Phi. Fortunately, I have a handy honey who became an unwilling guinea pig (pun intended: D). We’re totally surprised (waddahell?!) it didn’t add up, but its close, our measurement was far from accurate, but the quotient is close, amazingly close, 1.717 a .099 difference.

He also said that the quotient of the female bees when divided with the number of male bees in a bee hive anywhere in the world would equate to phi. I have yet to find a bee hive and count its residents without getting stung. Or catch a nautilus or pick a sunflower.

I have yet to resume my reading and despite the scorching heat, the book is way too cool to be put down and head for the nearest mall to chill out. In the mean time, a fitting challenge for Dan Brown’s converts.

http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/davinci/

What could be a fitting way to glorify such highly controversial book than to depict it in film. In 2006, The Da Vinci Code will be shown in the big screen with Academy-award winning actor Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and Audrey Tautou as the cryptographer Sophie Neveu. Gossip mills have circulated that Brown was offered $6 million by Sony for the rights of the novel.

And now the debate on whether Tom Hanks should be playing Langdon begins.